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- "Nationwide" featured an amazing collection of apprentice impersonators. From all over Britain, schoolchildren materialised via local studios to give us their imitations of the mighty.…
- Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.
- It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired…
- The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.
- The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the…
- In recent years, perhaps encouraged by competition from McDonald's, the British hamburger has become a credit to the nation. At the time of which I…
- In Italy, for the same price as a typical British hamburger meal including sweet, a builder's labourer could eat like a king - rather better…
- Perhaps I should have pointed out more often that without her (mother's) guidance and example I might have gone straight from short pants to Long…
- A decade ago, critics suggested biotech crops would not be valuable in the developing world. Now 90 percent of farmers who benefit are resource-poor farmers…
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